Ancestry of
Steve Young

NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback

John Brooks

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Steve Young — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2950 
  • Father:
  • Henry Brooks 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1623 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Sep 1691 
  • Death Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Eunice Mousall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Nov 1649 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Brooks (Ahnentafel No:1475 )

  Eunice Brooks

  Deborah Brooks

  Jabez Brooks

• Additional marriages for John Brooks

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Champney

• Sources for John Brooks

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Woburn, Vol. 1, p. 27, Birth record for daughter Sarah Brooks.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Woburn, Vol. 1, p. 27, Birth record for son Jabez Brooks.
  • ³ New England Ancestors Magazine, Fall 2005, Vol. 6, Iss. 4, p. 40.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1904, Vol. 58, pp. 49-51.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1978, Vol. 54, p. 235.
  • ⁶ The Essex Genealogist, 1993, Vol. 13, p. 146.
  • ⁷ Woburn, MA: Vital Records to 1873, p. 799, Birth record for daughter Deborah Brooks.
  • ⁸ Woburn, MA: Vital Records to 1873, p. 21106, Death record for John Brooks.
  • ⁹ Woburn, MA: Vital Records to 1873, p. 17114, Marriage record for John Brooks and Eunice Mousall.
  • ¹⁰ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 387.
  • ¹¹ Cutter, William R. and Arthur G. Loring, The Brooks Family of Woburn, Mass., Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1904), 4-6.
  • ¹² Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 122.
  • ¹³ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 557.

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